This amount of enthusiasm and energy women showed at work changed male attitude towards them and many realised these women were perfectly capable of being able to vote. The historian John Ray believes that WWI helped the decision to grant women the vote as “Women proved by their work that they deserved the vote equally with men.” And that “their war efforts succeeded where the suffragette campaign had failed”. However some believe that the great war in fact slowed the process of getting votes for women as before the breakout of war it looked like women were going to be granted the vote when Henry Asquith agreed to allow all suffragettes in prison to be released and arranged a meeting between the
There was an sudded influxo f women to take on each untradational occupation. During 1917 an 1918 there was a vast number of demands for female stenographers, telegraphers and phone operaters. One news paper wrote that women were more apt than men at telegraphing. Organizations such as the Red Cross, Patriotic League and YMCA also made efforts in supporting wartime hardships that the nation might face. Women in the red cross were heplful in recruiting men who had not joined the war.
World War II and Female War Correspondents After America’s entry into World War II, women became the mainstay of the American workforce due to the exodus of the male population that was fighting in Europe and the Pacific. This was a stellar opportunity for females to advance their journalistic careers both overseas and the American home front. At the end of World War II, more than 127 female war correspondents had received official accreditation from the United States military as war correspondents. Three of the most successful of those women were Clare Booth Luce, Therese Bonney, and Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (Library of Congress, 2010). Prior to World War II, Clare Booth Luce was a playwright living in the United States, Therese
1) During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the military and demands for war material increasing, manufacturing jobs opened up to women and upped their earning power. Yet women's employment was only encouraged as long as the war was on. Once the war was over, federal and civilian policies replaced women workers with men. 2) When the United States entered World War II in 1941, 12 million women were already working (making up one quarter of the workforce), and by the end of the war, the number was up to 18 million (one third of the workforce).
Women Who Made a Difference January 9, 2012 World War II came after the women’s right to vote, which was a major accomplishment for women. But when the war started in 1941, the women in the military were nurses. WWII opened up opportunities for women that had never been available before. As the men were called up for duty, the women was left behind to care for families (Beasley, 2002), which meant they had to work and provide for their family. Most jobs were deemed a “man jobs”, but employers had to hire women to replace the men who went to serve.
SIMILIARITIES AND DIFFERENCES World war ll was a great moment in history for women to step up to the plate and get the credit they deserve. Because the women replaced the men’s jobs who were off fighting for our country, they really made a huge impact to meet the wartime needs. Women made it possible. After World War two however, some things changed for the good and the bad. There are many differences and similarities of their roles during the war and after, this also includes the short-term and long-term effects on women forever.
The jobs that were previously done by men were now opened up to women. A typical man’s job, which comprised of working in the munitions factories, shipyards, farm, coal mines, drivers or bus conductors were now filled by women. The reason that this dramatic change occurred was because the men of the country were away fighting in the war. The war did not only create jobs at home but it also provided them with a chance to experience the outer world. It offered many women great opportunities to volunteer for the uniform services e.g.
The recruiting posters were glamorous - some were considered too glamorous by Winston Churchill - and many young ladies joined the ATS because they believed they would lead a life of glamour. They were to be disappointed. Members of the ATS did not get the glamour jobs - they acted as drivers, worked in mess halls where many had to peel potatoes, acted a cleaners and they worked on anti-aircraft
1) How have women right changed since 1945 from house wife mother to career women from having unequal pay to equal pay from having limited education to getting increased access as well as being a follower to becoming a leader. 2) This all started to occur when women demonstrated that they were capable of filling the jobs left by men who were apart of the 2nd world war. But following the arrivals of the soldiers women were expected to return to their traditional rule as house 3) Wife but after the experience of fulfilling a mans occupation they all objected the so called obligation. To prove this many feminist begun the establishment of committees to lobby government in order to gain the privilege of taking up 4) Any occupation
I would have been a hero as a woman in supporting and sustaining the conflict. Many of the heroes in World War II were women who gave up the security of home to face the unknown in answering to the nation at a time when it was needed. As the need for men in the armed services grew, women supported these men by producing planes, ships, and ammunition, also by attending to the ill and wounded. Women also filled jobs in the military vacated by men called up for active duty. They could and they did.